Valerie Cave, fishing, music, black and white photography, art, skateboarding, snowboarding, mountain biking, kinky interludes, the midwest, weather, gathering information, BBQ, old barns and vacant homesteads, abandoned factories, hiking, wines, beers, road-tripping, antique stores, lingerie, non-fiction books, concerts, getting lost, reading maps(makes hard to get lost), the debauchery of metalfests, county fairs, 3 hours before and 2 hours after sunset. . . .
Thomas Kinkaid-"The Painter of Light", professional fishermen, non-digital photographers, metalheads, old classmates (Art Institute 95-97), Jason Paris, anyone with lyric ideas for STUMP(you know), anyone that owns a goat/goats
CLUTCH, Slowdive, Hot Water Music, Skinny Puppy, Bad Brains, Big Business, Danzig, High on Fire, Isis, Pelican, Mastodon, Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Iron Maiden, Aphex Twin, Obituary, Dying Fetus, DECRYPT, Origin, Misfits, Dag Nasty, Pegboy, Naked Raygun, Auburn Lull, Cianide, KINGHORSE, and the Dead Horse, Impaled, Godflesh, ELECTRIC SIX, old Anthrax, Kataklysm, NOFX, Grim Reaper, The Cure, Immolation, Katatonia, Immortal, Creedence, Electric Wizard, Rev Horton Heat, Nasum, Modest Mouse, Minor Threat, Bad Religion, Kevorkian, Morthona, Vegetarian Cannibals, Shellac, Samhain
Sling Blade, Big Lebowski, Secretary, Tommy Boy, Communion, Weird Science, Goonies, Texas Chainsaw 1&2, Good Will Hunting, First Blood, Fear and Loathing, The Ring
Wild Boyz, Travel Channel, FuseTV, Cold Case Files, Simpsons, Family Guy, Brak Show, 6 Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, Vh1-Alternative/Metal Mania, King of Queens, the Office
Into the Wild, Musky Chronicles I-III, The Blue Bear, Deep Survival, The Last American Man, The final frontiersman, Miracle in the Andes, Truck-a love story,
More like people that I have much respect for: Dorothy Barick, Joel-Peter-Witkin, Robert Heins, Sally Mann, Andy Goldsworthy, Neil Fallon, Carol Thorner, John Sexton, Richard Newman, Peggy Macnamara, Tom Hanks,